Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger announced in a joint statement on the 22nd, local time, that they will immediately withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The statement said that the three countries had ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court between 2000 and 2004, and had been cooperating with the International Criminal Court based on the statute and related agreements. However, over time, the three countries believed that the International Criminal Court had "become a tool of new colonialism in the hands of imperialism" and had become a "global example of selective justice."